Luke 19:23
Good News Translation
Well, then, why didn't you put my money in the bank? Then I would have received it back with interest when I returned.'

New Revised Standard Version
Why then did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’

Contemporary English Version
Why didn't you put my money in the bank? On my return, I could have had the money together with interest."

New American Bible
why did you not put my money in a bank? Then on my return I would have collected it with interest.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?

Wherefore.

Romans 2:4,5 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? . . .

usury.

Exodus 22:25-27 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries. . . .

Deuteronomy 23:19,20 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing: . . .

Context
The Parable of the Ten Minas
22He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow. 23And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury? 24And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds.…
Cross References
Matthew 25:27
Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.

Luke 19:22
He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.

Luke 19:24
And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

Luke 19:22
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